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Comment on An Interview with Sister Aemiliane by Silouan

Silouan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:29 +0000

Here is the website of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Monastery in Thebes:
http://www.fhc.org/ypsosis/holycrossmonastery/en/index.html

In Christ,
Silouan

Comment on Why did Christ become Man? (Athanasius, 318AD) by Silouan

Silouan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:44:51 +0000

The author credit in the printed edition says only "Translated and Edited by a Religious of SPCK." (i.e. the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.) My copy is a 1989 reprint by SVS Press, and indicates that this translation was originally published in 1944 by Centenary Press. It has since passed into the public domain and virtually every edition in print in English reproduces this translation and C.S. Lewis' introduction. I do know of an earlier translation (1891) by Archibald Robertson, but I don't have a copy. Hope that's helpful :-)

Comment on Why did Christ become Man? (Athanasius, 318AD) by eric

eric — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:50:57 +0000

I, too, love the site, but wish it had citations. Whose translation is this?

Comment on Give me a word by Kester

Kester — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:58:39 +0000

Wow. How do we do this?

Comment on An Interview with Sister Aemiliane by ioana

ioana — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:29:15 +0000

I am from Romania and I would like to visit Sister Aemiliane in Greece. Where is this monastery more exactly?

Comment on Why does God sing? by Galatian

Galatian — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:34:13 +0000

Sean+Lotz.
No, the article was not historically inaccurate. The only sentence which I felt contained a slight was this: “We could offer worship to God in our assemblies, but not necessarily because He was present.” This, I would contend, was and is not true.

Comment on Why does God sing? by Kester

Kester — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:12:27 +0000

The article said that the Hebrew scriptures had vowel and musical markings. Do ALL of them have musical markings? That is, were you mean to sing the entire thing?

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Comment on Sola Scriptura by Adam

Adam — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:48:55 +0000

Hi Silouan

That’s not the kind of inerrancy I’ve heard from so many Protestants, but it makes more sense. My slow journey out of fundamentalism was a bit like Bart Ehrman’s – we both lost faith because of the crazy beliefs people have tortured out of the text using their own understanding. His scholarship on NT criticism destroyed his simplistic Protestant view of the Bible. Orthodoxy would’ve saved him the psychic shock.

What about the layers of meaning that Origen and others found in the Scriptures? Can we read it non-literalistically and still be Orthodox when reading the Hebrew Bible?

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Adjutorium » Juneteenth [SILOUAN] — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:57:02 +0000

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Comment on Why does God sing? by Sean+ Lotz

Sean+ Lotz — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:21:02 +0000

To Galatian, are there really slights against Protestants in this? I don’t see them. I see a reasonably accurate statement of fact. The description of the traditional Protestant approach to worship I don’t think would find much disagreement from those who did/do things like that. Therefore, it can’t be a slight, not if it accurately reflects what the people themselves think and believe. Rather than viewing it as an insult, I know many folk who would view it as their glory.

Comment on Juneteenth by Sean+ Lotz

Sean+ Lotz — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:03:57 +0000

Yay! Somebody blogged about my birthday! Thank you.

I was born and raised in Houston, Texas. I remember as a very young child riding past Herman Park (very big park) with my mother. To my childish eyes appeared an enormous group of black people having what was obviously an enormous party. There were games and picnicking and probably a parade. “Mommy, what are they doing?” “They are celebrating your birthday.” “But … where are my presents?”

She then explained Juneteenth to me, so I didn’t get to go on too long thinking all these folk were celebrating me. But the brief illusion was really nice. But no presents?

I love your recommendation that it be celebrated by Americans and Christians everywhere. It is another event in a long line which started with the Exodus. Praise God every moment in human history which proclaims God’s justice.

Comment on Why does God sing? by Silouan

Silouan — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:54:16 +0000

Some time ago I read Eric Werner's The Sacred Bridge Vol. 2: The Interdependence of Liturgy and Music in Synagogue and Church During the First Millennium. As I recall he traces a few melodic elements from the common Mediterranean chant modes of the Second Temple period which pop up later on in both Gregorian chant and in Yemeni Jewish chant. I may have to go back and give it another read :-) I do know that when I hear some varieties of Jewish chant, even though I don't recognize the melodies, they certainly feel familiar from my experience of Byzantine Christian chant.

Comment on Why does God sing? by Galatian

Galatian — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:21:01 +0000

An excellent article with some fine points, slightly marred by the unecessary slights against old time Protestantism. “Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them”. Whatever else can be said of Protestantism, they gathered in the name of Jesus.

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